Women who have dropped hobbies/interests, at what point did you realize that you were no longer passionate about what you were doing?

When the Olympics cut softball, I quit playing even though at 12 years old I could pitch an avg 56mph, by 14 I was being watched by college scouts, and and a former Olympian had selected me for private pitch coaching (she didn't hire herself out for private lessons, only group sessions).

The Olympics were the highest you could go in women's softball, and I'd busted my ass for years because I wanted to play for team USA. I sustained bad injuries (ripped two ribs out of my spine, broke and/or dislocated every digit on my left hand at least once. Same for multiple digits on my right. Injured knee, constant bruises and scrapes etc) and gave up over 3/4 of my weekends for years to play tournament ball. I was on at least 1 team year round, and usually had an overlap where I played on 2-3. I rarely spent time with friends outside of school, and had even started to sacrifice my passion for horseback riding.

So when it was cut from the Olympics, I gave it up - the passion fizzled out when the goal no longer existed. Booster club politics made playing for the school suck. I had other scholarship options for college. I wish I'd known it was going to happen sooner, because I'd have quit before sustaining life long injuries at such a young age.

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